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Topic: Malt to Extract to Malt conversions (Read 1653 times)

Hello, I am in the process of changing from a Extract/Specialty grains brewer to more of a partial mash brewer. Before you suggest it, I am not going all-grain because I want to brew on my stove and it won't do a full boil. I have set up a 5 gal coleman cooler as a mash tun and plan to use the batch sparging method (following the links from Denny). I can now safely use around 7-8 lbs of grain, which should greatly improve the process. My question is that I need help finding the information resources to help with converting extract or all grain recipies to my equipment. I do not know my average efficiency with this equipment yet, but I know this will be a very important number to have and plug into a formulation. I have read the information before, I am just having trouble re-locating it.

That site is a great link. Just and FYI you should take a pre- boil reading to figure out your efficiency. This way if you are getting 75% efficiency you can take that into account or if you are lower then 60% you can add more malt extract. An easy formula is (Starting Gravity reading x Starting boil volume)/Final Volume make sure that you drop the beginning 1. ( i.e. gravity of 1.056 becomes 56)That way you will get a rough estimation of your beer. This is essential for all grain or partial mash beers.

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